LSU outlasts Alabama in triple overtime

9:33 PM,
Feb. 23, 2013

Written by

Glenn Guilbeau
gguilbeau@gannet.com

BATON ROUGE - LSU celebrated one of the greatest nights in its college basketball history Saturday afternoon.

Then it went out and made its own memory.

On Feb. 11, 1978, Coach Dale Brown's outmanned and unranked Tigers upset No. 1 Kentucky 95-94 in overtime in front of 14,551 at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center despite all five starters fouling out on their way to LSU's first winning season in the Southeastern Conference since 1971, laying the foundation for a trip to the Elite Eight in 1980 and the Final Four in 1981. ...